Crowdfunding International: 215 EUR a pop cash gifting

There is no information on the Crowdfunding International website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Crowdfunding International website domain (“crowdfundinginternational.eu”) was registered on September 25th, 2015. “Crowdfunding International Exploitatie BV” is listed as the owner, with an address in Obbicht, Netherlands also provided.

The same residential address is provided on the Crowdfunding International website, suggesting the company is run from within the Netherlands itself.

Several Crowdfunding International website lists several Facebook groups belonging to the company, spanning the languages English, French, Croatian, Turkish, Portuguese, Hungarian and Dutch.

Each group has various admins, with Eliza Leclerc an admin in all seven Crowdfunding International Facebook groups.

On her Facebook profile, Eliza Leclerc (right) lists her location as Rotterdam, Netherlands. This ties into Crowdfunding International’s corporate address, with Leclerc likely involved in the running of the scheme.

Prior to promotion of Crowdfunding International beginning in February, 2016, Leclerc was promoting the Crypto 888 Club (2015) and GetEasy (2014) Ponzi schemes.

Update 3rd May 2016 – A “Team CFI” page on the Crowdfunding International website (not linked off the website homepage), lists several additional Netherlands-based admins (credited as “General Managers”):

The Crowdfunding International compensation plan documentation this review is based on does not disclose payment amounts beyond level 6.

Although billed as a 2×7 matrix, the documentation suggested payments beyond level 7 (running into millions of EUR) were possible.

As per screenshots of Crowdfunding International affiliate backoffices, two positions at each matrix level must be filled before the next level is unlocked.

I’ve provided the total payouts on each level above, however the unlock fees are paid out of the first two gifted payments at each matrix level.

Joining Crowdfunding International

Affiliate membership with Crowdfunding International is €15 EUR.

At least one €200 EUR gifting payment must also be made in order to qualify to receive payments from other Crowdfunding International affiliates.

Conclusion

As per a marketing video on the Crowdfunding International website;

[0:15] A new Dutch company uses a unique way to crowdfund any project you’d like. Even if you just want to fund a new car for yourself.

[0:28] The principle is simple, yet strong. Give a donation, get a donation.

Legitimate crowdfunding sees participants donate funds with no financial incentive to do so.

Under the ruse of pretending to be a legitimate crowdfunding scheme, what Crowdfunding International offer is the complete opposite.

You gift 200 EUR into the scheme, which is shared between the affiliate who recruited you and their upline.

This qualifies you to receive payments from affiliates you recruit, with enough payments pushing you into the upper tiers of the gifting matrix.

This isn’t crowdfunding, it’s cash gifting.

In a somewhat depressing trend, modern MLM cash gifting schemes have increasingly fronted themselves with a crowdfunding ruse.

The mechanics of these schemes sees Eliza Leclerc and early adopters placed at the top of the company-wide matrix. This ensures they receive the majority of funds gifted into the scheme, by virtue of their individual matrices having the most filled positions.

Everbody else (that includes you) gets whatever funds are left over.

If you examine the math behind Crowdfunding International, it becomes readily apparent that in order for thousands of EUR to be generated at the upper gifting tiers, a large portion of 200 EUR payments at the bottom of the company-wide matrix will be mostly passed up.

Thus, in order for the Crowdfunding International admin(s) and early adopters to be paid out, the majority of participants must lose money.

I don’t mean to sound like I approve of it, I am just saying, it was a brilliant move to create a site that plays on the one thing that every person in the known universe will fall victim to.

I guess you have never been cheated out of your money or know of anyone that has. Yet the idea here it seems great to do so.

You might want to consider how you earn your income rather than get excited that you can get paid a few times showing others how to steal from others. You should fear being caught up in a scam and telling others to do the same.

The messenger is not to blame for how and when you join these illegal business schemes. Its not like you know the owners of these scams either yet you would truth them with your reputation as a marketer.

Being informed doesn’t have to be taken as being negative. Its not about the owner but the business model you need to examine first.

Learn all you can then make an informed decision to join or not. The money you save might just be your own.

It’s not very brilliant to base your pyramid scheme in the Netherlands if the way the last one fared about a year ago is any indication.

Ponzi scheme PlanB4you was raided about half a year in to it’s existence and forced in to bankruptcy. Owner Johny got locked up for a few months. He’s now facing trial and is looking at a couple years of jail time and a hefty fine.

You’re too late, Bobby. If you had wanted to potentially earn a lot of money from this scam, you had to be there a few months ago.

Now you’ll just end up being one of the stupid base investors who’ll put money in so the top people can cash out. Where else do you think the 3 million comes from? In order for someone to cash out 3 million, 15.000 people lose the 200 they put in.

Some of you are talking about stealing from people. no one is taking anyone’s money by force and no one lies, whoever wants to donate money can do it also without joining the program, whoever wants to join in is welcome.

I am not interested whether the managers are making lots of money because I see the opportunity to do it myself and help my friends to do the same.

The money of a new member is not going to the top few people and then given out like in a pyramid. All of it is devided for projects between the upper lines you are aware of.

All of us join the project on the same terms and have the same opportunity. Those that will work can make money, those who are lazy and think money will fall on them from the sky will not, like in every business. stop shaming.

Selective attention, how interesting, you are choosing to answer only to the first paragraph.

“donation is a gift given by physical or legal persons, typically for charitable purposes and/or to benefit a cause” – the 200$ are used to fund my upper lines projects, I know it is going to happen and it is my intention, looks the same to me. As I said you can also fund someone without joining the project. here is the crowdfunding.

Dear Oz, I am not stealing anything. I don’t have any unique terms. everybody join on the same terms and know exactly what they are getting or not getting by joining, whoever joins after me knows that I am one of those who will get a part of his funding, like I knew when I joined.

As far as I remember netherlands is part of the UN, so if the firm made the program is not banned I guess there is more to it than you think.

It is starting to get a little bit boring when all you do is shouting: “it’s a pyramid, a lie, stealing”.

As someone with an experience in the marketing and mlm world I would finish by saying that there will always be people who would say bad things about a great opportunity, without even looking into it, it is just their personality. They will definately not succeed.

On the other hand, people who will try to see the positive sides and will be ready to work hard, will have results, and will be much closer to the success. True for every business.

first of all… do a good research before you write something about things what you cant understand! why is an MLM webpage talking about crowdfunding?

i do not understand the sense behind!? this would be the same when a minigolfer would talk about fishing…makes no sense at all!

the next thing is… you talking about admins on facebookpages!? put on facebook any company in the mlm… and you will see that the most of the admins are just distributors and usw a company logo! SOOOOOOOO!?

the next thing is…why that crowdfunding international is certificated from the dutch goverment!? the legal infos you can find on their webpage!

and you also talk about complains? ITS NOT A MLM…REALLY GUYS…TO A BETTER RESEARCH and dont write stupid things… just because you have nothing else to do!

No wonder CFI is threatening legal action now even though they knew of this article for months. Their traffic is flatlining and going down as new “investment” is drying up: alexa.com/siteinfo/crowdfundinginternational.eu

It’ll all come crashing down soon enough and anyone who puts in money now is extremely unlikely to ever see any of it back.

Bernard: No wonder CFI is threatening legal action now even though they knew of this article for months.

They are not “threatening legal action” they are blowing smoke.

The best possible outcome of their bluff and blustering would be if they “DID” institute legal proceedings.

By “legal proceedings” I don’t mean a threatening letter from a pet lawyer, I mean in a real court where they and their lawyer can explain the legality of their business in front of an experienced judge.

Now THAT would be worth paying to see.

“psacal” or any other ponzi / pyramid promoter explaining the finer points of his business to a judge and the assembled media.

I’m coming somewhat a bit late after these long exchanges. I did attend a CFI recruitment meeting, and all i saw and heard, is quite well explained by this post.

I was knowing nothing AT ALL about CFI when i attended the meeting. Just listening and puting the right questions for a safe undestanding, made quite clear to me : ponzi scheme or the like.

Obviously I rejected the offer.

I saw right above “investment is drying up” (in Europe ?), but don’t worry the CFI promoters are still progressing in other parts of the world. A French Territory (New Caledonia – Pacific) is currently an exploding market for CFI (they got 2.5k subscribers over 270K inhabitants in a few months).

Finally the question I have is the following: How to demonstrate the scheme is illegal (an expert question to financial guys?) and then put a final stop to it.

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